Tiger Woods: I’m belting it again, but the golf ball’s juiced

Tigers Woods is feeling good once more and hitting the golf ball far, thus far he thinks the USGA has to make a change to cease it.

Recovering from yet one more again surgical procedure in April, the forty one-yr-previous Woods is getting nearer to golfing once more and is discovering extra concerning the ball as he nears his return on the Hero World Problem on Nov. 30.

“We have to do one thing concerning the golf ball,” Woods informed UConn ladies’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma on the “Holding Courtroom with Geno Auriemma” podcast that got here out Friday. “I simply assume it’s going too far, as a result of we’re having to construct golf programs, in the event that they need to have a championship venue, they’ve acquired to be 7,four hundred to 7,800 yards lengthy.

“And if the sport retains progressing the best way it’s with know-how, I feel the eight,000-yard golf course just isn’t too distant. And that’s fairly scary as a result of we don’t have sufficient property to start out designing these sort of golf programs and it simply makes it a lot extra difficult.”

Woods stated the USGA is already wanting into the know-how of the ball and the potential of rolling it again 10, 15 or 20 %.

Within the meantime, he’s seeing the consequences of the present ball in his apply photographs. Woods has not golfed in a event since February, when he pulled out of the Omega Dubai Desert Basic earlier than the second spherical.

“I can’t consider how far I’m hitting the golf ball,” Woods stated. “I’m again to hitting it my full numbers [yardages] and not likely making an attempt to try this. I didn’t understand how a lot I had dropped off due to the ache in my again and from me going at it and hitting it regular simply because I simply lived it from everyday and I actually couldn’t inform the distinction. However now I can inform the distinction.”